90% Of Guns Involved In Mexico Drug Wars From The United States-One Big Lie

In March, our vaunted Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, made the allegation that one of the reasons there is a war of drug dealers and the government in Mexico is because 90% of the guns used come from the United States.
Well, as so much that comes out of the mouth of the liberal, it is a big, fat lie!
In a report on the Fox News Channel, reporter William La Jeunesse does the leg work that seems to have failed the Slobbering Obama Media Machine and comes to a real fact, not the fiction of Mrs. Clinton and her allies.
That only 17% of the seized weapons at Mexican crime scenes can be traced to the United States. But, here is where Mrs. Clinton and her anti-gun allies get the 90% statistic:

What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S."

But, Mrs. Clinton needs to spread that lie because it serves two parallel purposes.
Firstly, it will whip up the anti-gun groups here in the United States. They will go around to the SOMM with the 90% gun statistic, not mentioning that only 17% of the seized weapons can be traced to the United States. It puts blame on the ability of the drug lords and their allies to get guns with ease in the United States.
And it also is a way to take heat off of Mexico and the corruption that reaches to the highest level of government. It includes the police, all law enforcement and the military.
So, if only a small percentage of guns really do come from the United States, where do the rest of the guns and other weaponry come from? Well, here are some places according to Fox News:

-- The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.
-- Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.
- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.
-- Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.
-- The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.
-- Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America's cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.

No doubt about it. It is a rogue's gallery of those that are in fact a threat to the United States. Red China, Russia, the FARC from Columbia (leftist rebels fighting a 30 year long civil war) and organized criminal outfits. And, regrettably, some of the weapons are from nations that are allies of the United States. Israel, South Korea and Belgium. And most frightening is the fact that many soldiers who leave the Mexican military just take their weapons with them. And many end up protecting the drug lords.
The drug war between the Mexican government and the drug dealers has been going on for two years. It is admirable that the government of Presidente Felipe Calderon has taken on these thugs. But he has done so from a position of weakness and now it appears that the United States will give cover to the failures of the the Mexican government. It stopping the overall drug trade. In stopping the violence from spreading beyond the borders of Mexico. In rooting out the corruption from within his own government at the federal and state level.
It would be helpful to Mexico if our government did not use their courageous struggle to grandstand for strengthening gun control laws here in the United States. It would be helpful if the United States helped the Mexican government stop the corruption from within. It would be helpful for the American government to face reality and accept that this drug war is real and now here in the United States. It would be helpful to stop lying to both Mexico and the United States and place an inordinate blame on the Americans.
But then, our government would have to tell the truth. And since our own Secretary of State leads the pack of lies, that will not happen anytime soon.